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YAML? THAT'S NORWAY PROBLEM

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The "Norway problem" in YAML, where the country code "NO" is incorrectly parsed as `false`, comes from implicit boolean typing in older v1.1 specifications that was removed in v1.2, but remains prevalent in 2026 because many popular libraries still adhere to the older standard.